Realmuto drives in 6 runs to help Marlins beat Red Sox 14

The Rockies (47-64) are losers of their last 13 games. Over his last five starts he hasn’t seemed like the pitcher we all saw at the beginning of the year, and could be dealing with either arm fatigue or maybe even trying to pitch through an injury. The starters have the American League’s highest ERA at 4.96. “It wasn’t so much my last start, but after that”.

Two bad teams met in Miami Wednesday afternoon. After pitching scoreless innings in the third, fourth and fifth, he gave up four consecutive hits to start the sixth. At one point, he retired seven straight hitters.

David Ortiz (L) of the Boston Red Sox looks with teammate Hanley Ramirez (R) to the spot where his second inning solo home run landed in the stands during play against the Miami Marlins at Marlins Park on August 12, 2015 in Miami, Florida.

Miami was able to withstand Ortiz’s multi-homer game and cruise to a 14-6 victory. He also leads all major league catchers this season with his six triples.

While it was once considered an issue of pitch-tipping in Rodriguez’s poor starts, it’s since become more of an issue of wild control. Bryan Morris (4-3) was the victor, pitching an inning.

Rodriguez quickly dismissed a question postgame Wednesday regarding tipping.

“I don’t know that we need to announce or anoint who the closer is”, Farrell said.

“When he swings the bat like he’s shown; that’s a pretty exciting player”, the manager said. He struck out four and walked five.

Realmuto said he was thrilled – in more ways than one – that Gordon homered.

“For the time being”, Farrell said. “And it has the makings of being an above-average one”. He’s 22-years-old. There’s a lot of good going on here. “I think John wisely went home and got some rest”.

Wright exited in the sixth with a 4-0 lead after allowing the first two batters to reach base. He has 25 homers this season, including 19 since June 11.

Miami cut its deficit to 4-2 with two runs in the sixth.

2 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 left on.

July 31 vs. Tampa Bay: 5.0 IP, 3 earned runs.

1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2 left on. Miami won despite leaving 16 runners on base. He has missed 34 games this season, and it is uncertain whether he will return this year….

His ERA increased from 4.17 to 4.83 on Wednesday. But again, he shouldn’t be counted on to do too much. This wasn’t about tipping pitches. “I can’t have him hitting more triples”. “It was really a compete performance by him to step up that way”.

Farrell was a late arrival to the ballpark Tuesday after undergoing hernia surgery in Detroit the previous day. There’s probably a couple reasons for that and as those get ironed out, this is a guy that’s got confidence, he’s got intelligence, he’s got stuff.